Tuesday, January 26, 2010

So the Dodgers took a look but the eventual price tag of $10-plus million was too much for them in the end. While a few free-agent pitchers still remain, I'm preparing myself for another season of a hopefully healthy foursome (Kuroda, Billingsley, Kershaw, Padilla) plus a rotating fifth spot.

After all those seasons as one of the worst hitting pitchers in the NL, ducking into the AL might be a good idea. If not having to hit provides him one more advantage in staying healthy, I guess that's smart.

Pick him up to play in your pitcher-friendly park, hope he's not terrible or crippled, pay him $5-6 mil through July, work the rotation in July so he can have a few decent starts in a row, trade him to some desperate contender for prospects and maybe the $5-6 mil. Sounds like a plan!